[8], 384, 381-388, 393-409, [7] p. : 30 cm. (fol.)

Translation of: Magiae naturalis

With an added engraved title page with historiated border and portrait of Porta, signed "R. Gaywood fecit. Lond. 1658."

Title printed in red and black

Head-pieces; initials; vignette on t.p

Errors in paging

Signatures: pi² C² D-3I⁴

(from t.p.) 1. Of the causes of wonderful things -- 2. Of the generation of animals -- 3. Of the production of new plants -- 4. Of increasing household-stuff -- 5. Of changing metals -- 6. Of counterfeiting gold -- 7. Of the wonders of the load-stone -- 8. Of strange cures -- 9. Of beautifying women -- 10. Of distillation -- 11. Of perfuming -- 12. Of artificial fires -- 13. Of tempering steel -- 14. Of cookery -- 15. Of fishing, fowling, hunting, &c. -- 16. Of invisible writing -- 17. Of strange glasses -- 18. Of statick experiments -- 19. Of pneumatick experiments -- 20. Of the chaos

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